Market Manipulation Cases Involving Options Do NOT Include the Following

question 13

Multiple Choice

Market manipulation cases involving options do NOT include the following:

• A) buying out-of-the money options and simultaneously buying the underlying shares to artificially increase the stock price so that the options end up in-the-money
• B) the dividend play strategy (or dividend spread arbitrage strategy)
• C) dual trading abuses
• D) option pools and stock price manipulation
• E) the tulip bulb price bubbles

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